On Our Cover:Fairhaven School's not your
typical school. Founders, friends and students dedicated to each person's
finding their own drummer built their democratic alternative from the ground
up. Now everybody inside has to figure out just what education they want
- and how to get it. Photo by Mark Burns.

Dock of the BayOur Birthday Bash for CA$H: Too Much Fun; 8,000 Trees * Noah's
Bark: Odd Creatures Crash SPCA Day * While Calvert Blesses Great and Small
* plus, Way Downstream, Virginia scolded over horseshoe crabs In Pennsylvania,
$68 to be spent to preserve farmland In Kentucky, a hawk saved from Lynyrd
Skynyrd In Massachusetts, pit bull on wanted list for killing trees and
last but not least, this week's Creature Feature: In Colorado, running
like a headless chicken.